Openswan

If you want to use Openswan to create an IPSec VPN to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, see Libreswan.

How Openswan and Libreswan Are Related

Openswan is a well-known IPSec implementation for Linux. It began as a fork of the now-defunct FreeS/WAN project in 2003. Unlike the FreeS/WAN project, it didn't exclusively target the GNU/Linux operation system, but expanded its use to other operating systems. In 2012, FreeS/WAN renamed itself to The Libreswan Project because of a lawsuit over a trademark of the name openswan.

As a result, when you try to install or query the Openswan package on Oracle Linux, by default the Libreswan package is installed or shown instead. The following yum search query command illustrates this behavior: